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Three Amish children were killed and a fourth was critically injured after a car crashed into their horse-drawn buggy on Wednesday.
The DDC Clinic provides treatment, research, and educational services to Amish and non-Amish children and their families. The prevalence of asthma in the Amish of Indiana was low at 5.2% as compared to 21.3% in Hutterite schoolchildren of South Dakota; likewise the prevalence of allergic sensitization was 7.2% versus 33.3%.
Only 22 cases have been described in medical literature, 21 of them came from 9 sibships in the Old Order Amish community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [7] Only 1 of the 22 came from a non-Amish individual; a female infant with presumably consanguineous parents. [8] [9]
Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1941. The Amish do not educate their children past the eighth grade, believing that the basic knowledge offered up to that point is sufficient to prepare one for the Amish lifestyle. [14] [15] Almost no Amish go to high school, much less to college.
The total includes both adults and children. There are about 12 Amish communities in Virginia, according to the Amish America blog, which also noted that the population has been growing rapidly ...
Authorities say a pickup truck rear-ended an Amish horse-drawn carriage in southern Michigan, killing two and seriously injuring others
Byler's husband, Andy Byler, left the house in the morning with a neighbor, leaving Rebekah Byler, who was six months pregnant, with her two young children. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Upon Andy Byler's return home, he and a family friend found Rebekah unresponsive in the living room.
Two siblings aged 7 and 11 died in the crash along with a horse pulling the Amish buggy